The 2025 Five-Star Asia Pacific Workshop in Finance will be held at Singapore Management University from May 16 to 17, 2025. The Five-Star Asia Pacific Workshop aims to provide an open platform to bring together scholars from top research institutions in the Asia Pacific region. It extends the scope of the Five-Star Workshop in Finance in China, which has been organized for more than years covering 10 leading universities and business schools in finance research in China.
This year, the Five-Star Asia Pacific Workshop will be co-organized by the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics (SKBI) at Singapore Management University's Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB), PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua University (PBCSF), and the University of Toronto. Presenters are selected from the above institutions.
Check out the inagural workshop held in 2024.
Date & Time:
16 May 2025 (Fri) | 8:45am - 5:30pm
17 May 2025 (Sat) | 9:00am - 2:00pm
Conference Style:
The workshop will adopt a seminar-style presentation/discussion to promote in-depth engagements of all participants.
Venue:
Singapore Management University
10 Canning Rise, Singapore 179873
SMU School of Social Sciences & College of Integrative Studies (SOSS/CIS)
Seminar Room B1-1
Note: The conference room is located in SOSS/CIS (not within LKCSB). For those unfamiliar with SOSS/CIS, we will gather at the LKCSB lobby on Friday, 16 May, for two rounds of escorted walks to the conference room: the first at 8:45 AM and the second at 9:00 AM. An SKBI staff member will be present at both times to guide participants.
Programme:
Day 1: May 16 (Friday) |
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| 8:45am - 9:15am |
Registration, Breakfast & Welcome |
Session 1: The Nexus of Immigration and EntrepreneursChaired by Qifei Zhu (Assistant Professor of Finance, NUS) |
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| 9:15am - 10:00am |
Native-Immigrant Entrepreneurial Synergies, by Zhao Jin, Amir Kermani, and Tim McQuade. |
| 10:00am - 10:45am |
Immigration, Housing Affordability, and Home Ownership, by Poorya Kabir, and Tianyue Ruan.
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| 10:45am - 11:15am |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15am - 12:00pm |
Judicial Transparency and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Mass Publicity of Chinese Court Decisions, by Xing Liu, Xuan Tian, and Zhiming Zhu.
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12:00pm |
Lunch |
Session 2: Advances in Green Finance and AIChaired by Dashan Huang (Associate Professor of Finance, SMU) |
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| 2:00pm - 2:45pm |
Pricing the Energy Transition, by Erica X.N. Li, Yu Li, and Shaojun Zhang.
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| 2:45pm - 3:30pm |
Distant Holdings: Decoding Mutual Fund Skills with Large Language Models, by Xiyuan Ma, Mathew Spiegel, Hong Zhang, and Yijun Zhou.
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee Break |
Session 3: Insights Into Informed and Benchmark-driven Trading Chaired by Erica Li (Professor of Finance, CKGSB) |
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| 4:00pm - 4:45pm |
Informed Trading under the Microscope: Evidence from 30 Years of Daily Hedge Fund Trades, by JinGi Ha, Jianfeng Hu, and Yuehua Tang.
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| 4:45pm - 5:30pm |
The Growing Index Effect in the Corporate Bond Market, by Sean Seunghun Shin, Xing (Alex) Zhou, and Qifei Zhu.
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Day 2: May 17 (Saturday) |
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Session 4: The Impact of Regulation and Financial ConditionsChaired by Hong Zhang (Professor of Finance, SMU)
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| 9:15am - 10:00am |
The Long and Short of U.S. Bank Regulations: From the Great Depression to the 2023 Bank Failures, by Sami Mahmood.
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| 10:00am - 10:45am |
Real Effects of Financial Conditions: How Does Provider Financial Health Affect Opioid Prescription?, by Isil Erel, Shan Ge, and Pengfei Ma.
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| 10:45am - 11:15am |
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| 11:15am - 12:00pm |
Learning, price discovery, and macroeconomic announcements, by Haozhe Han, Grace Hu, Calvin Dun Jia.
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| 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch |
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Tianyue Ruan (Assistant Professor of Finance, NUS)
Zhiming Zhu (PhD Candidate, PBCSF)
Erica X.N. Li (Professor of Finance, CKGSB)
Xiyuan Ma (Research Fellow, SMU-SKBI)
Hong Zhang, (Professor of Finance, SMU-SKBI)
Jianfeng Hu (Associate Professor of Finance, SMU)
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Pengfei Ma (Assistant Professor of Finance, SMU)
Grace Hu (Associate Professor of Finance, PBCSF)
Feel free to contact us at skbi_conference [at] smu.edu.sg if have any enquiries regarding the conference or registration.
